Webinars
Jueves, 9 de Noviembre 2023, 17:00,
(Central European Time – CET, GMT+1)
Wage gender disparity by activity and skills: empirical evidence in Italy
«Reducing gender-based violence, sex discrimination and structural inequality between women and men represents one of the strategic goals of Europe and its member countries to achieve a Gender-Equal economy. Focusing on Italian economy, in the last decade the gender gap has narrowed but several criticisms endure in payment inequalities and labour segmentation, especially after the pandemic crisis. The literature demonstrates that policies meant to overcome the gender inequality can bring higher employment rates with consequences in poverty reduction and income growth, especially if they are designed to consider sectoral dissimilarities and skills and education level of workers. In this perspective, the webinar presented the results in terms of gender gap by activity and worker typology of theoretical exercises assuming different labour force dynamics and a positive economic growth rate. The theoretical simulations are carried out using a Computable General Equilibrium model based on the Social Accounting Matrix that incorporates gender specifications for the Italian economy. The results show that with labor force stability and exogenous economic growth, the level of employment increases for all skill types and gender, and the gender pay gap tends to narrow especially for low-skilled workers, in line with the main literature on the field. However, shocks on female labor force must be accompanied by demand side actions to avoid trade-off between Gender Pay Gap and Gender Employment Gap.»
Wage gender disparity by activity and skills: empirical evidence in Italy
Wage gender disparity by activity and skills: empirical evidence in Italy
Jueves, 27 de Abril de 2023, 17:00,
(Horario Central Europeo – CET, GMT+1)
Mercado de trabajo de la mujer y políticas de cuidado infantil en Colombia: simulaciones de políticas con un modelo pionero de equilibrio general computable
«During recent decades, Colombia has undergone significant social, economic, and demographic shifts. Availing themselves of new opportunities, women have increased their participation in the labor market and improved their capabilities. Some indicators of gender equality are now similar to those of high-income countries. At this point, stubborn inequalities in unpaid care and domestic work are becoming a major bottleneck in the way of continued progress. However, with rare exceptions, economic models fail to consider gender in labor markets in general and in issues related to the provision of care and domestic work in particular, making them unfit to analyze the impact of policies of economywide significance that address care and gender equality in Colombia and elsewhere. To remedy this situation, this paper develops the first care-extended CGE model for Colombia, accompanied by a Colombian database, including a pioneering social accounting matrix with labor disaggregated by gender and extensions to cover home child care and domestic work. Model simulations are designed to analyze and contrast the impacts of equal increases in government spending on two policies: subsidies to market-based childcare services and cash transfers to households with young children. Preliminary results indicate that both policies improve the economic situation of families with children but that they have quite different impacts on work outside the home: in the context of current inequalities in time spent on domestic child care, the subsidy program significantly raises female market work. The results are discussed in the context of the literatures on policies for gender equality and the design of methods for analyzing such policies.»
Mercado de trabajo de la mujer y políticas de cuidado infantil en Colombia: simulaciones de políticas con un modelo pionero de equilibrio general computable
